The servers/AMIs need: * Java installed (11+) * An SSH key on your machine, added to your ssh-agent, whose username matches with the SSH username in PerformanceTest#main() * The sar and mpstat utilities installed -> * Ubuntu: sudo apt install sysstat * For Flamegraphs to work -> * JDK Debug symbols: https://github.com/jvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler#installing-debug-symbols * Allow capturing Kernel call stack events: https://github.com/jvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler#basic-usage If you want to use a database for testing: * Create an RDS database and add its properties to application.properties * Execute database.sql against your new RDS database * Change MODE in PerformanceTest to "DEPLOY_DB"